8 of the United States' worst presidents:
1. James Buchanan: Buchanan rejected slavery as an evil but like the majority of his party he refused to challenge it in any way. He essentially adopted a laissez-faire attitude toward slavery, believing it would somehow go away on its own.
Though he was from the Northern state of Pennsylvania, Buchanan often sided with Southerners on the slavery issue, and earned the nickname “doughface”—a term for Northern politicians with Southern sympathies. He was in support of multiple compromises that made it possible for slavery to spread into the western territories acquired by the Louisiana Purchase & the Mexican War.
Buchanan argued that the Constitution did not provide him the authority to take action against would-be seceders, so he chose to sit on his hands while the situation deteriorated.
I'm really proud that ethereum does not have any culture of trying to prevent people from speaking their minds, even when they have very negative feelings toward major things in the protocol or ecosystem.
Some wave the ideal of "open discourse" as a flag, some take it seriously.